Improved medicated cigar



, tant @anni Lem/rs 12a/:em No. 87,320 dated Mai/rch. 2,l le@ R ...WM

IMPROVED IMEDICATED CIG-AR. l

The Schedule referred in these Lettera Patent and makingpart of the same.

To all whom 'it may concern Be it known thatI, JOSEPH` BARRETT, voi'Chicago,`

in the county of Cook, and State of lllinois, have invented an Improved Medicated Cigar; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others to prepare the'cigar for use;

I take so much tobacco as` is necessary to make a good cigar, and when rolling the'lcaves of the filling together, sprinkle in evenly so much finely-pulverized cnbebs asare equal in Weight to about one-eighth ofy the weight of tobacco. The wrapper is then put on inthe usual manner, and thercigar is ready for use. Its flavor, however, will be much improved, if' it shall he first allowed to season for a month or two.

A chemical analysis of cnbebs shows that they contain, to lthe hundred pounds, about 15 parts of water, 4.88 parts of oil of cubebs, .36 parts of resin, 3.69 parts of wax, 6.53 parts of eXtractive substance, 6.12 parts of cubebin, 59.58 parts of woody fibre, and 3.84 parts of chloride of sodium, sulphate and phosphate of lime, and magnesa.

This proportion ofthe above-named ingredients, except the water, may be compounded, ground, and sprin kled on the filling of the cigar when it is being rolled or formed, in the same manner as the-ground cubebs, as

, they will produce, if the cigar does not season too long,

substantially the same effect.

When the oil is used, it being volatile after it is eX- tracted from the resinous substance, it soon mostly `evaporates, and leaves the cigar only partially medicated.

Further, experiments prove that the extractiva substance, although its component parts are unknown to me, produces a much more salutary effect, when used in the 'natural state, than when used with the other parts, after once having been separated'frorn'them.

The medicinal eii'ect of cubebs, in the treatment ofl various diseases, is well known to the medical profes sion.

The diseases which the medicated cigar is most sure to relieve, are catarrh, bronchitis, dyspepsia, consumption, whooping-cough, and aiiections ofthe kidneys and urinary organs. And. for these purposes it is foundto be much better than to give cubebs in any'form now known to the profession.

The powerful narcotic eiects of the oil of tobacco are almost entirely neutralized by the burning cubebs;

consequently the-tobacco is not only rendered harmless, but made to subserve a useful purpose in counter- 'laying irritation and quieting the nervous system'. i No instruction can be given as to the number of ci-L gars to be smoked to relieve any of' the above-named diicultics. In case of a bad cold or hoarseness, one or two cigars smoked daily will be found sniiicient, butfor chronic affections, three or four should be used, andfor catarrh, the smoke should be ejected outwardly, i through the nose, if possible. If a greater number of cigars is used daily, no evil effect will be produced.

Having thus fully described my invention,

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat ent of the UnitedStates, is

A cigar, medicated with. the compound herein nained, as and for the purpose set forth.

Josnrn BARRETT.

Witnesses G. L. CHAPLN, E. E. GIBSON. 

